Algol: I did not ask for the return to the older radars, what would be the point? You demonstrate that modern pilots would not be able to use it anyway.
The older generation couldn't either mate, as was demonstrated time and again.
If I am coming up on a large area of activity and need to find the best way through (and I don't have the luxury of a super-airliner like you obviously fly so cannot go over it)
What are you flying? DC-3's?
The aircraft involved was an A320.
I could, using the old equipment, find the route I wanted. Since you don't know what I am talking about there is no point my explaining it to you as to how to go about this, but believe me it was possible.
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I know very well what you are talking about. You are talking about outdated equipment and your skill in the black art of using it. Bully for you.
Modern radar makes all those decisions for me and for a modern pilot that is fine and dandy. Quite often though, the modern radar is wrong.
It's all wrong, if you use it wrongly. But the modern gear is easier to use. So less often dangerously wrong.
I'll lay a penny to a pound that (if this was indeed a cb encounter) it came down to pilot decision making, not equipment shortcomings. And by the way - by pilot decision making I refer to the kind of hard choices forced on pilots every day, when ATC refuse course deviations.